STOP the WAR on NATURE
Post 5 in the series by Ken Jones "Trophy hunters destroy the most valuable and beautiful element of their prize: its life. Their reward is a carcass on the brink of decay - a trophy to their foolishness." - KJ Stop the War on Nature by Ken Jones "But man is but a part of Nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” ~ Rachel Carson Our modern civilization is waging a War on Nature. The Web of LIfe on our little planet is so interwoven, so intricate in detail, as to stagger the mind. Yet...
read moreProtecting the First World Wide Web
Post 4 in the series by Ken Jones "Branding Concerns for the Earth" What do you call it? The state of natural affairs today, and our vision for our future? Long before the advent of the World Wide Web of the internet, there was a different internet, a different World Wide Web. It is known as the Web of Life. The Web of Life is huge, diverse, extremely interdependent, and important. It is important to us because we depend upon it for our very lives. We call what we take from the Web of Life, "Natural Resources". These natural resources...
read moreClimate Change’s Evil Twin: Mass Extinction
Post 3 in the series by Ken Jones photo courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas Climate Change's Evil Twin: Mass Extinction Currently holding center stage among environmental concerns is Climate Change. Climate Change threatens climate stability in the near future, indeed, even now. Global Warming from increasing CO2, methane, and other greenhouse gasses primarily from the human burning of fossil fuels, is responsible for rising seas, coastal flooding, ocean acidification, melting glaciers, disappearing polar ice caps, warming atmosphere and...
read moreWorld Population Day
Post 2 of the series: Letter to the Editor, World Population Day, observed annually on July 11, was created by the United Nations in recognition of the need to raise awareness about the problems created by growing human populations. Not long ago, on July 11, 1987, the world's population reached Five Billion people. Today there are more than Seven Billion people and we are adding 227,000 more each day. Common sense tells us that this cannot go on forever. We are already running out of space, food, and clean water in many places the...
read moreChanging of the Guard for Wildlife
Post 1 of the series: The famous environmentalists listed above, among others, are aging or deceased. They have been the public educators and influencers - the conservationists who have taught a generation to care. 70% of today’s conservationists will be gone in 20 years due to retirement and death. Who is going to take their place? Despite their best efforts, they are leaving the natural world worse off than before. The next new generation may be the last one that can conserve nature enough to avoid the tipping points that loom for climate...
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